A beautiful, clever book, mostly told through the eyes of an eight-year-old boy in wartime England, though with a frame first person narrative told by the same person in his old age. It touches on everything about England - class, race, town and country (and new suburb), manners, sexuality. Two boys who are uncertain friends play lots of fantasy-based games around their newly built suburb, which still shades into rough rural at its edges, and they create a scenario around the idea that one of their mothers is a German spy. It's hard to say more without spoiling.
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